A dynamic workshop for writers at our private loft in Paris. Develop your best work and strongest narrative voice. The weekend workshop is a condensed version of our 5-day conference Schedule, with a special focus on Point of View.

In the dynamic Point of View workshop, writers are taken on an adventure, viewing the world through the various possible lenses of narrative, from first person, to close third person, and the impact of past, present and the illusive subjunctive tense--among other things.

You will learn narrative techniques for eliminating distance between subject and object, creating a riveting and unique view of the world through your characters' eyes, and other methods for tightening up your pages to create a real page turner.

Writers will be invited to read passages aloud from their work, and you will be given live exercises to try out the possibilities and make the most interesting choices.

You will learn how great novelists and nonfiction writers pull it off. From the P.O.V. masters like Colum McCann, Paul Auster, Kirin Desai, Taiye Selasi, George Saunders, and Jennifer Egan, to the narrative nonfiction gurus Truman Capote, John Berendt, Tom Reiss and Tracy Kidder.

You will also explore how Point of VIew impacts narrative voice.

Register online, or call 1-646-845-9185 (U.S.) for more information. Go to the Testimonials page for reviews of the courses and workshops from numerous authors. See the guest artists page for a sampling of some of our accomplished guests.

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Saturday Oct. 22, 2016

8 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Booksigning with bestselling author

Rebecca Walker

REBECCA WALKER is an award-winning writer and lecturer, named by Time magazine as one of the most influential leaders of her generation. She is the author of the memoirs Black, White and Jewish and Baby Love, and the editor of the anthologies To Be Real, What Makes a Man, One Big Happy Family, and Black Cool. Her writing has appeared in Bookforum, Newsweek, Real Simple, Glamour, Interview, The Washington Post, Corrierra de la Sera, French Vogue, and Marie Claire Italia, among many other international publications and literary collections. Her latest book, Adé: A Love Story, is currently being adapted for film, with Madonna attached to direct. She lives in Los Angeles, California.